The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-26
Local and State Notes.

a movement is on foot to extend the Railway
Employees Saving Institution, recently estab-
hshed on the Pennsylvania lines east of Pitts
burg, over the lines west OF that point.
The train men in tho service of the T., B. &
W.. on Saturday evening. presented Superin-
tendent Wilson with one of l.. E. Smiths ham
merless guns of the latest improved pattern.
To-day is TO be the railroad mems holiday, and
is to be more generally observed such than
usual All the city freight depots will be closed
No freight trains will be run except to move per-
ishable freiehts and live stock.
The reduced rates at which dressed meats and
tell unfavorably in the earnings of the roads
which carry these classes of freight. The Bee
line and Lake Shore were among the greatest
sufferers through the fight which ends with to-
day.
The L., N, A. & C. company is replacing all
the light rails on the main line where there are
curves with a seventy pound rail- Tho monster
freight-engines which they have recently placed
on the road are very severe tracks where
there many curves are found the L.,
N, A. & c. southern division.
1t is said to be settled that the Illinois Central
will build an extension the coming year to ST.
Louis. This will require the building of seventy
five miles of road. 1t IS further stated that the
St. Louis division will be used an outlet for
one of the Indianapolis roads westward, making
another line fully as short as that of the l. & St.
L. road.
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the G. l., ST. L. &
c. road, in commenting the Claims that som
or the Indiana roads are being perated 40
per cent. of the gross earnings says no road in
Indiana can be operated on less than GO per cent
of it's gross earnings and the physical condition
Of the road bed and equipments be properly
maintained.
The heavy passenger-engne, No. 12S
schenectady build) on the c., H. Il /. road, is
doing some fast running. Three times in the
last week has this engine hauled zine cars from
Rushville to the Union Depot Indianapolis, in
forty-eight minutes. The distance is thirty nine
miles. and the train has to stop at the Belt road
and run slow within the city limits
The L.. n. A & C. company have largely in
creased their facilities for repairing locomo-
tives, and repairing and building at their
shops in New Albany. The new machinery that
they have put in the last few months has cost
In the neigh borhood of $40, 900. The company
now work some $50 men at these shops and aft
er New Years will increase their force IS men
or
The car movement on the c.. L. ST L. & C.
last week was among the largest in the history
of the road. and Superintendent Bender says.
but for q partial blockade at Cincinnati and
Chicago the movement of the week would have
been 500 loaded cars heavier. Sunday there
we're 800 standing IN the yards at Indian
apos, astbound awaiting the clearing of the
yards at Cincinnati
Jeffersonville New Albany and Louisville
now dependent On Indiana for their coal aside
from the anthracite coal which they receive by
rail. The entire stock of Pittsburg COAL which
comes down the river is exhausted owing to
the low stage OF water Quite q respectable per
cent. OF the coal they are now using comes off OF
the L., f. & St. L. road, while the shipments of
coal from Clay county immense.
Col Oran Perry is just closing his twelfth year
as agent OF the Pennsylvania lines. and during
his official career he has employed thirty five
boys who began as messenger boys. who now
hold good positions as agents clerks of some
department in the service. three of them being
private secretaries to some one of the officers on
the road. The Colonel gives boy to under
stand, when he commences work, if found wor-
thy and capable, he will be in the line of promo
ton as opportunity offers. ard this. he says, en-
courages the boys TO work for promotion.
ID. & Folsom. general agent of the American
Express Company. has just commenced bis
eleventh year as agent at this point. and he
gays that the American express has done the
largest business this year that it has in any
year since he came here, and he thinks all the
express companies have done well Indian
Apolis lines. When he took hold there were but
three express companies doing business here;
now there five, without counting in the
Wells, Fargo 81 Co, the Southern and the Texas
e. Pacific express companies, all of which
represented here. 1t now takes fifty horses to
do the express work here. while ten years ago
twenty-four did it. The most remarkable in